Máximo Kirchner came to Cristina's defense and deepened the internal divisions within the Peronist Party: "How can they blame the woman who can't leave her house?"

A week after the electoral defeat in the legislative elections and with the tide rising in the Peronist movement over responsibility for those results, the national deputy and president of the Buenos Aires PJ, Máximo Kirchner, tried to dispel the accusations against his mother, the former president detained for corruption, and instead pointed against those who now "went away for ten days to rest, or seven because the elections have passed" .

“How can some blame the woman who can’t leave her house, while those who can go out hide when the results go badly?” was the question posed this Saturday afternoon by the congressman at a meeting of the Néstor Kirchner cultural center, which brings together activists from the Buenos Aires towns of Florencio Varela, Berazategui and Quilmes, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires.

In a reproach to the leadership that formed Fuerza Patria for the October 26 elections, Máximo Kirchner pointed out that a "major problem" within Peronism is that "there are things that aren't done . There are things that aren't done among comrades in Peronism. And something that should never be lost in Peronism is respect for those who give their all every day, as she has done," referring to his mother, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

“It’s often shameful , and even more so this week, when I saw some people trying to blame Cristina for the election results. And it’s not just that they’re all men blaming a woman,” she pointed out.

And, she highlighted her mother as "a comrade who, the three times she was on a presidential ballot, won all three times, and all three times the Argentine people and Peronism won. A comrade who doesn't tell the activists that they have to put their lives on the line, she puts her lives on the line herself , she is firm, she doesn't give up, she speaks her mind."

After insisting that the six-year sentence for corruption in the Vialidad case left her in "unjust house arrest," she stressed that "she continues with the tools she has at hand, trying to communicate with her people and with society to explain to them what the vision of the country is and what the problems are that lie ahead."

Comparing his mother's temperament with other leaders, Máximo Kirchner recalled that after his father's death in 2010, Cristina "received the affection of her people, cried, swore, cursed" instead of "going to rest as some do."

" You see, now there are some colleagues we can't find because they went away for ten days to rest, or seven because the elections are over. Not Néstor, Néstor didn't rest. Néstor faced things head-on, he went, he went," he added.

For further details, Máximo Kirchner pointed out that “Néstor, an example of a militant who in 2009 stood up for everyone in the province of Buenos Aires , and there were many who shirked that fight . However, those who shirked Néstor's fight in 2009 went and clung to Cristina's coattails in 2011 , because of the number of votes she garnered (after the primaries). That is the reality, that is the truth.”

During this afternoon's event, the congressman was accompanied by the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza, and the former Secretary of Commerce, Guillermo Moreno , who was recently barred from holding public office by a court ruling.